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“I was driven, as have been many writers, both by a repulsion of the childhood home's narrow confines and a desire to reach further, to keep desiring more of a future not yet imagined and not yet written down.”

Has Beens Home Desire Written Childhood Driven Repulsion Childhood Home

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“When you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results have been powerful. We have to ask the questions, how do people survive in poverty and other challenges of traumatic childhoods? And, until we fix this underlying problems, how do we help people in the meantime?”

People Has Beens Helping Problem Asks Community Challenges Levels Results Powerful Poverty Childhood Tools Locals Introducing Adopted

Author:James Redford

“The Dalai Lama has been extremely interested in science since his childhood.”

Has Beens Childhood Lama Dalai

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.”

“The pattern often has been entrenched since childhood... [abusive people] don't think that there is anything wrong with them because that is the way they were brought up in their family.”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Childhood Patterns Abusive

Author:Gary Chapman

“Since childhood, I have been painting, for no special reason, numerous dots and nets, drawing from the hallucinations that seem to appear endlessly. I can't explain why if you ask me.”

Ifs Has Beens I Can Reason Seems Asks Childhood Special Painting Drawing Ask Me Dots Hallucinations

Author:Yayoi Kusama

“The Clintons are obsessed with money, and they have been since they came on the national scene. I'm sure that both of them since childhood have been obsessed with money. And I mean it. I mean obsessed with not having it when they were young.”

Mean Has Beens Young Childhood Scene Clinton Obsessed

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Basically it's true that my own life has been my chief window for life in America, beginning with my childhood and the conflicts, the struggles, the strains that I felt in my own family.”

Has Beens America Felt My Own Struggle Childhood Conflict Window Chiefs Strain My Own Life

Author:John Updike

“That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised. At a time when nobody thought we’d ever see a new steel mill built in America, we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana.”

Knows Firsts Has Beens Names Sports Company Childhood Son Office Authority Campaigns My Son Horizon Shopping First Lady Early Childhood Staples Obama Campaign

Author:Mitt Romney

“My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.”

Has Beens Play Whole Character Careers Fantasy Childhood Soldier Fulfilling Fatherhood Knights Larger Than Life

Author:Orlando Bloom

“For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.”

Want Looks Children Has Beens Important Running School Remember My Own Childhood Kitchen Bus Lunch

Author:Kate Winslet

“Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Natural Wife Childhood Tales Fairy Feds Fairy Tale Geography Fairytale Fables Natural History

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand. This is the day of the milligram. The rigors of learning how to do long division have been a traditional part of childhood, just like learning to smoke. In fact, as far as I am concerned, the two go hand in hand. Any child who cannot do long division by himself does not deserve to smoke.”

People Wells Children Long Doe Has Beens Two Facts Hands Sleep Childhood Demand Capable Deserve Concerned Traditional Smoke Division Hand In Hand Unconsciousness Rigor

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.”

“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

Source: On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

“We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”

Has Beens Made Earth Realizing Clear Childhood Dog Objects Ordinary Cat Army Everyday Enormous Forests Familiar Grass Chairs Dirt Unfamiliar Pebbles Swarms Everyday Things Clear Day

Book:Cosmos: A Novel

Source: Cosmos: A Novel

“And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.”

Ifs Has Beens Running Wish Childhood Horse

Book:Acheron

Source: Acheron

“I have been only the humblest jugglers-with-facts; and that, in a country where the truth is what it is instructed to be, reality quite literally ceases to exist, so that everything becomes possible except what we are told is the case; and maybe this was the difference between my Indian childhood and Pakistani adolescence--that in the first I was beset by an infinity of alternative realities, while in the second I was adrift, disoriented, amid an equally infinite number of falsenesses, unrealities and lies.”

Firsts Has Beens Country Facts Reality Lying Differences Numbers Cases Childhood Truth Is Infinite Cease Alternatives Indian Infinity Adolescence Unreality Adrift Jugglers Falseness

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.”

Firsts Has Beens I Can Moments Remember Memories Forever Childhood Goes On Shattering Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

Author:Tom Stoppard

“Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.”

Ifs Thinking May Long Has Beens Remember Parent Voice White Deals Happened Childhood Paper Ideals Raised Fingers Clouds Neighbor Chill Sibling Libel

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.”

Firsts Doe Has Beens Made Joy Destiny Childhood Possibility Mirrors Sensibility Wholeness Bondage

Author:Anais Nin

“Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.”

People Has Beens Ends Enough Stories Reality Lying Can Do Fantasy Childhood Cost Telling The Truth Telling Stories Oxford Making Up

Author:Philip Pullman

“Ethical veganism results in a profound revolution within the individual; a complete rejection of the paradigm of oppression and violence that she has been taught from childhood to accept as the natural order. It changes her life and the lives of those with whom she shares this vision of nonviolence. Ethical veganism is anything but passive; on the contrary, it is the active refusal to cooperate with injustice”

“Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives.”

Source: The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

“When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.”

Has Beens Play Character Found My Own Acting Roles Childhood Harder

Author:Bette Davis

“I know how important it is to have a helping hand. In my childhood I had difficult times because of hormonal problems. If I hadn't had support, I wouldn't have been able to fulfill my dreams.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Important Helping Problem Dream Hands Able Sports Difficult Support Know How Childhood Football Difficult Times Helping Hand

Author:Lionel Messi

“Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.”

Persons Has Beens Childhood Garden Touched Wildflowers Flower Garden Untamed

Author:Lady Bird Johnson

“It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.”

World Should Has Beens Seems Would Be Science Courses Next Hours History Generations Childhood Strange Obvious Improvement Extras Adopted Next Generation Daylight

Author:Arthur Conan Doyle

“If a child is given love, he becomes loving ... If he's helped when he needs help, he becomes helpful. And if he has been truly valued at home ... he grows up secure enough to look beyond himself to the welfare of others.”

Ifs Inspirational Needs Looks Children Has Beens Enough Helping Home Kids Given Grows Parent Family Growing Up Childhood Secure Welfare Helpful

Author:Joyce Brothers

“A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality.”

Believe Has Beens Reality Inspiration I Believe Heaven Nature Half Beauty Focus Childhood Everyday Contact Closest True Meaning

Author:Densey Clyne

“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”

Source: Cicero in Twenty-eight Volumes: Cato Maior de Senectute. Laelius de Amicitia. De Divinatione

“We want the world to focus on children whose lives have been devastated by AIDS. The millions of children who are missing their parents; their childhood, their future but most importantly, they are missing YOU. Everyone can make a real difference. Your voice is needed in a global movement that can change their world.”

World Want Children Has Beens Real Fighting Parent Voice Differences Millions Focus Childhood Missing Movement Needed Aids Hiv Devastated Hiv Aids

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“Is not nationalism - that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder - one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred? These ways of thinking - cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on - have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.”

Source: A Power Governments Cannot Suppress

“I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off my view of the sky. . . . Flying got into my soul instantly but the answer as to why must be found somewhere back in the mystic maze of my birth and childhood and the circumstances of my earlier life. Whatever I am is elemental and the beginnings of it all have their roots in Sawdust Road. I might have been born in a hovel, but I determined to travel with the wind and stars.”

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